Sight Quotes - Page 23

• Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Giving, Three

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• Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

  Dallas Willard

  Trying, Doe, Sometimes

  Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson (2015). “Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.

  John Green

  Fake, Praying, Moments

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.

  Wilson Rawls

  Memories, Lying, Men

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.3, Laurel Leaf

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• Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

  Terry Goodkind

  Beautiful, Men, Lines

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.406, Head of Zeus

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• The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Boys, Hair, Eyebrows

  "The Amulet of Samarkand". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Self, Political

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• Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

  Kim Harrison

  Trying, Needs, Lines

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• There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.” I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

  Pittacus Lore

  Stupid, Often Is, Pants

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine's Legacy”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.733, Penguin

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• The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.

  Mario Puzo

  Hands, Rose, New Friendship

  Mario Puzo (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade

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• The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.

  Nora Roberts

  Blood, Class, Dallas

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• How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Alive, Invisible, Eyesight

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Thought" (p. 64), 1999.

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• She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Running, Real, Men

  Johanna Lindsey (2004). “A Man to Call My Own: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul

  Sebastian Barry

  Clothes, Water, Soul

  Sebastian Barry (2011). “On Canaan's Side”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.

  Frederick Douglass

  Thinking, Reptiles, Matter

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.81, Frederick Douglass

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• Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

  John Green

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Curran and Kate stood by the door. "I can't believe you decided to come down here and check on me," she said. "The guy once handed you a fan and told you to fan yourself if the sight of his naked torso was too much." "That was like a year ago. Will you let it go already?" "No." Curran grabbed her and pulled her to him, kissing her. "Never." She kissed him back and smiled. Awww. Kate and the Beast Lord sitting in a tree.

  Ilona Andrews

  Believe, Kissing, Doors

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.185, Penguin

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• Toby smiled and started to speak, but Josh adjusted his hold on Tank and reached back, covering Toby's mouth. "Wait," Grace said. "I think he was going to actually use words." "Yeah, but trust me, you don't want to hear them." Toby pulled Josh's hand away. "Are you my new mommy?" Grace's mouth fell open in shock, and Toby giggled at the sight. "Okay, Tiger," Josh said. "You know I love the sound of your laugh, probably more than any sound in the world, but I will squash you like a grape if you say that to one more woman today.

  Jill Shalvis

  Thinking, Hands, Squash

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• Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Children, Lying, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics

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• My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe

  Jandy Nelson

  Flower, Grandmother, Thinking

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.36, Penguin

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• That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hiding In Plain Sight, Hiding, Plain Sight

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine's Legacy”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Soul, Library

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.49, Random House

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• Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Strong, Procrastination, Views

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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